1. She answered gently, but discouragingly  : When it's safe. 2. High definition television sets sell at discouragingly  high prices. 3. However, unemployment is likely to remain discouragingly  high. 4. This is fortunate because visiting the Uffizi is often hampered by discouragingly  long lines. 5. And that, discouragingly  enough, is one reason they are promoting low-key exercise. 6. The number of potential flashpoints around the globe in 1998 is discouragingly  high .-0- 7. And in the nation's shopping capital, New York, business was discouragingly  slow. 8. Even the fluff is discouragingly  substantive. 9. Compared to hopes raised by breakthrough agreements since then, the advance is discouragingly  slow and fragile. 10. But the prospectors discovered that the gold deposits in these streams were discouragingly  poor and quickly exhausted.